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Monitoring is undertaken in Scottish Inshore Waters, using networks of volunteers and automatic recording equipment, as well as in Scottish Offshore Waters, using the MSS research vessels MRV Alba na Mara and MRV Scotia.

Marine Scotland Science also participates national monitoring programmes, such as:

UK Marine Monitoring and Assessment Strategy (UKMMAS)

UK Marine Environmental Change Network (MECN)

UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN)

This group provides published data from monitoring these activities. For many activities, there are national or international standards for how the monitoring is undertaken.

Monitoring

The National Performance Framework Clean Seas Indicator 2015 is the
percentage of assessments of metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in biota and sediment showing
concencentrations that are...

The National Performance Framework Clean Seas Indicator 2016 is the
percentage of assessments of metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in biota and sediment showing
concencentrations that are...

The National Performance Framework Clean Seas Indicator 2017 is the
percentage of assessments of metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in biota and sediment showing
concentrations that are unlikely...

The 2017 assessment of the UK's Clean Seas Environment Monitoring Programme
described the status and trends of contaminant concentrations and biological
effects measurements in biota and sediment at monitoring stations in waters
around the UK....

The 2016 assessment of the UK's Clean Seas Environment Monitoring Programme
described the status and trends of contaminant concentrations and biological
effects measurements in biota and sediment at monitoring stations in waters
around the UK....